Agents of Atlas
| Agents of Atlas | |
|---|---|
The Agents of Atlas
Art by Leonard Kirk |
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| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Agents of Atlas #1 (October 2006) |
| Created by |
Jeff Parker (writer) Leonard Kirk (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Team |
| Base(s) | Marvel Boy's spaceship The hidden city of atlas |
| Agent(s) |
Gorilla-Man Jimmy Woo (Head of the Atlas Foundation) M-11 The Uranian Namora Venus 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett) |
| Agents of Atlas | |
| Series publication information | |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format |
(vol. 1) Limited series (vol. 2) Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date |
(vol. 1) October 2006 – March 2007 (vol. 2) April – November 2009 |
| Number of issues |
(vol. 1) 6 (vol. 2) 11 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Jeff Parker |
| Penciller(s) |
(vol. 1) Leonard Kirk (vol. 2) Carlo Pagulayan |
| Inker(s) |
(vol. 1) Kris Justice (vol. 2) Michael Jason Paz |
| Letterer(s) |
(vol. 1) David Lanphear (vol. 2) Nate Piekos |
| Colorist(s) |
(vol. 1) Michelle Madsen (vol. 2) Jana Schirmer |
| Creator(s) |
Jeff Parker (writer) Leonard Kirk (artist) |
| Editor(s) |
(vol. 1) Nathan Cosby Mark Paniccia Joe Quesada (vol. 2) Nathan Cosby Mark Paniccia Lauren Sankovitch |
| Collected editions | |
| Agents of Atlas HC | |
| Dark Reign HC | |
| Turf War HC | |
Agents of Atlas is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is composed of characters originally appearing in unrelated stories published in the 1950s by Marvel's predecessor company, Atlas Comics.
The characters debuted as a team in What If #9 (June 1978) and starred in the 2006 limited series Agents of Atlas, written by Jeff Parker and with art by Leonard Kirk.
This group of heroes, which was not a team in 1950s comics, was established through retroactive continuity as having been formed in the 1950s. They had appeared as a group in the non-canonical What If #9 (June 1978) and then reappeared in Avengers Forever (1998-2000 miniseries).
The limited series Agents of Atlas #1-6 (Oct. 2006 - March 2007) was set in the present day and likewise set in mainstream continuity. The series emerged from what writer Parker called "a huge editorial hunch" at Marvel, and said the revival of the characters "is something that [editor] Mark Paniccia was looking at and [for which he] thought specifically of me, and asked me what I would do with it". Paniccia says the idea came to him when he picked up a copy of the What if? story and found the cover "intriguing; it instantly tickles the nostalgia bone".
The team made a brief appearance in the "The Resistance", an eight-page story that was part of the Secret Invasion crossover story arc. Parker and editor Paniccia said in July 2008, that the former will write an Agents of Atlas ongoing series which is one of the titles launching as part of the Dark Reign storyline. That series ended after eleven issues but the title relaunches as part of the "Heroic Age" under the title Atlas because, according to Parker, it not only makes for a smaller logo but it is a "natural progression to what most people call the book and the team." The series was cancelled with Atlas #5.
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